Roof flashing



C. HOSKINS ROOF FLASHING April 20 1926.

Filed June 15, 1925 Patented Apr. 20, 1926.

UNITED STATES GIGERO HOSKINS, F QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

ROOF FLASHING.

Application filed June 15, 19 25. Serial No. 37,308.

To all whom it my camera:

Be it known that I, CIonRo Hosxms, a citizen of the United States, residing at Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Roof Flashing; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompany-, g drawings, forming part of this specification. v

This invention relates to improvements in gaggle blocks or flashing receptacle or rag- An object of the invention is to produce.

a raggle block having a flashing receiving slot so devised as to permit the flashing to be quickly and securely locked therein.

More. particularly the invention contemplates a raggle block having a flashin reoeiving slot provided with a flashing ocking means, such means comprising a reentrant recess merging in said slot.

The flashing is formed with a locking pro'ection or tonguewhich will en age in sai reentrant recess when the ties ing is inserted in the slot and when said tongue isengaged in said recess the flashing is securely locked in the raggle block.

In the accompanying drawings I Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a wall and adjoining roof showing the preferred embodiment of the present invention; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing a modified form of the invention.

For purposes of illustrating the invention a section of a-vertical wall and a portion of an adjoining roof 11 are shown, the rag le blocks 12 being set in the wall 10 at t e proper height. Usually these blocks are of suflicient size to occupy the space that would normally be occupied by two bricks. Their size, however, as well as the distance between adjacent blocks'in the wall, can be varied as desired.

In most instances a cant strip 13 is placed in the-angle formed by the adjoining surfaces of the wall 10 and roof 11 in order to W support the flashing at the proper inclina tion to the roof and thus eliminataabruptangles in the flashing. This cant strip may,

however, be omitted, permitting the flashing to lie against the face of the lower portion "of the wall 10 but this will require the flashing to be bent at right angles at the adapted to poilf t where it is turned to extend over the roo This flashing 14 extends from the roof up over cant strip 13 and into a slot 15 in the raggle block- 12 and to securely maintain'the flashing in this position, said slot has a preformed locking means such as a reentrant portion 16 in which a rejection or looking tongue 17 on the flasliing engages. With the tongue 17 locked behind thelip 18 of, the reentrant recess, the flashing will be securely held in place while being mopped or pasted to a base flashing or if the flashing is to remain unpasted to compensate for contraction and expansion, there will be little or no dan er of it being displaced from raggle bloc 12.

As shown in Fig. 2, the tongue 17 can be "oflset at the proper angle to lnsure its engagement behind lip 18 of the reentrant reoess.16 but in the preferred form of block the slot 15 extends into the block 12 at an cant strip 13, and the lip 18 is located in or intersects the plane of said surface of the.

cant strip. With this preferred form, the flashing will be slightly flexed as it is inserted'in slot 15 but after tongue 17 asses the lip 18 said tongue will spring bac and snap into the reentrant recess. The flashing will then be securely locked in the raggle block.

I claim: 7

1. A raggle block for roof flashing e laid in a wall'with its exterior face flush with the surface of said wall, said block having a slot therein to receive the flashing and said slot having a reentrant portion extending into the body of the block to receive a projection on said flashing. I

2. A raggle block for roof flashing having a slot therein in which said flashing is to be received, and said slot having a reentrant portion for reception of a locking projection carried by said flashin the bottom wall of said slot and the ho y of said flashing lyin in different planes. I

3. A ragg e block for roof flashing having a slot therein in which said flashing is to be received, and said slot having a ,re-entrant portion for reception .of a locking projection carried by said flashing, the bottom wall of said slot and the body of said flashing lying in different planes, and the lip at the entrance of said re-entrant portion of the slot intersecting the plane in which said flashing is located.

4. A raggle block for the roof flashing covering a cant strip used in building-construction, said block having a flashing receiving slot therein, said slot extending in a plane at an angle to the exposed face of the cant strip, and said slot having a rea re-entrant recess merging into said slot,

the lip at the entrance of said re-entrant portion projecting into the plane of the exposed surface of the-cant strip whereby entrant recess in which a locking projection 19 on said flashing is received.

5. A raggle block for the roof flashing the portion of the flashing extending into the slot will be flexed by said lip.

CICERO HOSKINS. 

